In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a family debate about ancient toolmaking. The fossilized hand of a male ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

(CNN) — The first known hand fossils from an extinct human relative have been unearthed in Kenya, revealing a species with unexpected dexterity and a gorilla-like grip. The hand bones, which were ...

Abstract: Gait detection is a crucial task in human identification, which can perform long-distance recognition without the need for subject cooperation, making it widely used in medical diagnostics ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network of parents, grandparents, and community members during a long period of childhood. This ...

Baby animals are basically human children in a different form. Or at least they can act so similarly at times that their behavior appears to be the same. That’s certainly the case with these two, very ...

In Laos, archaeologists uncovered fossils suggesting that Homo sapiens left Africa 20,000 years earlier than previously believed. The remains, dated to between 86,000 and 68,000 years old, challenge ...

Still, for the uninitiated, it can be hard to navigate how much of Gein’s story here is fictionalized, how much is exaggerated, and how much is shockingly true. Here’s a breakdown to help separate ...